Hopefully things change once lemmy.world updates to 0.19 with scaled sorting. And maybe you guys and gals have some advice for fixing my issue.
To keep my feed fresh I subscribed to all the big communities full of memes. They do have engagement beyond funny jokes, but I’m tired of how political everything is.
I’m not trying to bury my head in the sand, on the contrary, im highly aware how much fascism has taken its grips on the world. But I don’t need to be reminded everytime I’m on lemmy.
So I’m hoping once scaled sorting is on lemmy.world, the lemmyverse will transform. I hope I start seeing my hobbyist community come to life.
Or if people have recommendations for large communities not full of politics that works too. Maybe memes and shitposts aren’t for me.
I’ve been active. Any time I share an opinion that isn’t in-step with the crowd, I get bombarded by people defending the status quo, insulting me, and telling me that I’m wrong because “just look at the downvotes” which is a hilarious metric.
I got banned from the Vegan community for suggesting that meat was deeply ingrained in our behavior from a cultural perspective, and simply messaging to other people that animals were alive and conscious wasn’t going to cut it if they wanted to reduce meat consumption.
I also tried to convince people that rubbing BLM/anti-“all lives matter” rhetoric in conservatives faces wasn’t going to convince them to support our movements, and the whole thing devolved into everyone throwing insults out, and not one person could ever explain why I was wrong.
Maybe becoming active on Lemmy isn’t a great thing lmao
That’s normal “movement” people behavior. And that’s why most people never get anywhere near a movement.
I think you’re right. Just gonna have to keep fighting the good fight. I guess lol
This is generally my experience too
I left the shitposts and it’s been much more fun. I’m there with you, I deal with anxiety. I’m an informed voter, I keep up with things, but when I’m scrolling and wasting time I don’t want to be bombarded with how terrible the world is. I just want to see cats and chuckle a bit.
I had to not just leave lemmyshitpost, but block it. I want to appreciate people making an effort to put up content, but that content is so cringy and annoying that I couldn’t take it anymore and it shows up under All if you don’t block it.
Oh man… you’re basically speaking directly to why I made our small community (consider this a personal invite). As I said elsewhere, I find Lemmy actively hostile.
The number of indignant replies and comment-free downvotes we get inundated with continually is… disheartening.
People want content, but actively detract from any content that doesn’t explicitly cater to them. It’s hard to take.
I’ve joined!
I dropped political and news communities, feels better
As suggestions
Thanks for the recommendations. I subscribed to all of them.
Happy to help!
I generally browse via kbin.social, with lemmy.world as my backup, but since Ernest has gone MIA, things have become quite laggy and the frequency of errors is getting to be too much, so I’ve been exploring other instances and apps. One of the key things I’m looking for is an alternative that provides keyword filtering, so I can block out the majority of posts on certain topics. The Thunder app has keyword filtering, so I’ve been using that for the past couple days, and I’m definitely enjoying myself more and engaging more.
I’ve had to block a lot of communities from my lemmy.world feed since they’re in languages I don’t understand or are porn (I don’t want porn popping up while I’m killing time on the bus!), but it’s like whack-a-mole, so I’m really looking forward to instance blocking!
Mbin is actively developed: https://github.com/MbinOrg/mbin?tab=readme-ov-file
Instances: https://fedidb.org/software/mbin
Piefed has keyword filtering by default, as well as a lot of other neat features.
It’s very much based around subscribing to communities, so you won’t see random things that are trending in random communities on the front page. For better or for worse I guess. I like it a lot, but I use it in combination with kbin where I’m more likely to stumble across random things (like this thread). :)
You can tweak a lot of what you see. You can even make accounts for politics, and accounts for hobbies! That’s actually what I’m planning on doing soon.
Everything is politics. Half of us are here because of reedits bad politics.
I’m going to preface that this might feel like a personal attack but it’s meant for anybody who come across this response.
We didn’t come over here because of political reasons. Reddit didn’t all of the sudden give their views on gun rights or abortion. They changed their business model. That’s not politics.
Of course you can say anything is political, but thats on YOU. Why would you want to fill your head with all the negativity of the world, constantly? Can you personally solve the world’s crises? Go outside and look around at your local community and see the GOOD that is still happening right in your back yard.
I’m sorry that I’m hounding on you specifically, but you said something and I’m going to refute your statement.
Beyond that, it’s still good to have you here because it’s debates like this that keep lemmy thriving.
EDIT: I edited this post to be nicer. Doesnct change my view.
They changed their business model. That’s not politics.
That’s literally politics.
Reddit was able to change their API and essentially do whatever they wanted because they operate under a political system that gives power to corporations over individuals.
It doesn’t have to be this way. At&t used to be able to require you to use their proprietary phone. That’s not much different from Reddit requiring you to use their app.
We could have a different system. A system that gives data rights to individuals. A system that would require an API that allows 3rd parties – and therefore more competition and innovation – to exist.
What you just stated doesn’t refute anything I said previously. If you want to surround yourself with what you consider politics, be my guest. Just don’t bring me into it. I’m doing my part in my community.
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